Next XX Days for UW Events

events-pull.sh

#!/bin/bash 

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#### Script to smartly pull a range of events from the UW Calendar  ####
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#### Usage: setup in crontab of user                                ####
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#### Author: Chris Heiland, cheiland@uw.edu 6/14/2010               ####
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START=`date +"%Y%m%d"`
END=`date --date "$START 21 days" +"%Y%m%d"`
HOME='/home/dir'
EVENTS=$HOME'/public_html/events.xml'

URL1='http://myuw.washington.edu/cal/doExport.rdo?export.action=execute&'
URL2='export.format=rss&export.compress=false&export.name=All+Public+Events+'
URL3='(except+class+meetings)&export.start.date='$START'&export.end.date='$END

## Because it's way too long to have on one line
URL=$URL1$URL2$URL3

curl -s $URL -o $EVENTS